George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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We don't tell the officials to change the standard for the playoffs, but as we all know, time and space tends to evaporate very quickly in a playoff game; there tends to be a lot more physicality and a lot more adjustments in the course of a series.
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The wonderful thing about writing for theatre is you can go anywhere you want with the language. There are no limits. With film, they frown on language - it's always 'Too many words.'
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
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If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
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I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
